This seminar takes Jamaica as a case study to examine the range of visual art practices as discursive spaces that create different forms of citizenship in the postcolony.
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Seminar 1: Picturing the Postcolonial
Mon, May 13, 20246:00 pm to 8:00 pm -
Seminar 2: Sites and Sounds of the Nation
Tue, May 14, 20246:00 pm to 8:00 pm -
Seminar 3: Vernacular Victories
Wed, May 15, 20246:00 pm to 8:00 pm -
Public Talk: Co-temporary Art in Jamaica
Thu, May 16, 20246:00 pm
Annie Paul is editor-in-chief of the online magazine of Caribbean writing, PREE (preelit.com), and was the 2023 Lakes Writer-in-Residence at Smith College (Massachusetts). She is on the board of the National Gallery of Jamaica and has published extensively on art. In 2020 she published a biography of Stuart Hall in UWI Press’s Caribbean Biography Series. A founding editor of the journal Small Axe she has been published in international journals and magazines such as Newsweek International, the Guardian (UK), Chimurenga, The Caravan (India), Slavery & Abolition, Art Journal, South Atlantic Quarterly, Wasafiri, Callaloo, and Bomb and a range of art books and catalogues such as the Brooklyn Museum’s Infinite Island and Documenta11’s Creolite and Creolization. Paul is author of the blog Active Voice (anniepaul.net)